Sue-Lin Wong - The Economist - China

<p>The journalist’s holy trinity: the right time, the right place, the right beat. You’re lucky if you find it once in your career. Sue-Lin Wong (<a href='https://twitter.com/suelinwong'>@suelinwong</a>) tells how she thinks she hit it in the Hong Kong protests in 2019. Now working as a China correspondent for The Economist based in Hong Kong, she also has the unusual distinction of having been based in Shenzhen for years.</p> <p>Countries featured: China, North Korea, Australia</p> <p>Publications featured: Reuters, Financial Times, Economist</p> <p>Sue-Lin discusses taking a gap year to teach English at a sketchy school in China (6:04), taking three years off from university to live in China and the US (10:11), joining Reuters with Jake as a trainee (21:20), becoming a Reuters correspondent in Shenzhen in southern China and quickly joining the FT (34:55), covering the Hong Kong protests (41:38), joining The Economist (46:50), a story that got away about an alleged rape (54:37), following a Chinese student protest and the dystopian crackdown on it (1:00:09), and finally the lightning round (1:14:30).</p> <p> </p> <p>Here are links to some of the things we talked about:</p> <p>Sue-Lin's FT Magazine story on the HK protests - <a href='https://on.ft.com/3zQCPNL'>https://on.ft.com/3zQCPNL</a></p> <p>Her stories on Chinese student protestors -</p> <p><a href='https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-labour-protests-insight-idUSKBN1L0060'>https://reut.rs/3CJXm8u</a></p> <p><a href='https://reut.rs/3zzyFtm'>https://reut.rs/3zzyFtm</a></p> <p><a href='https://reut.rs/3kDwKzy'>https://reut.rs/3kDwKzy</a></p> <p>Her series of stories on the North Korean border - <a href='https://reut.rs/3kEqx6q'>https://reut.rs/3kEqx6q</a></p> <p class="LC20lb DKV0Md">端傳媒Initium Media - <a href='https://bit.ly/2XW82lz'>https://bit.ly/2XW82lz</a></p> <p>The Ezra Klein show - <a href='https://apple.co/3i72Kuf'>https://apple.co/3i72Kuf</a></p> <p>故事fm (storyfm) - <a href='https://bit.ly/3CKYRmU'>https://bit.ly/3CK